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Sep 15 A housing lottery randomly offered 4,498 families a way out of high-poverty neighborhoods The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 14 Peggy LeMone started wondering how much a cloud weighs when a friend's dad asked her in junior high, and decades later… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 14 The last time NASA delivered an instrument to Mars designed specifically to detect living microbes was in 1976 The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 14 Before it went national, Jonas Salk's polio vaccine was tested on 7,500 Pittsburgh schoolchildren, and Salk himself… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 14 If your social circle has shrunk as you’ve grown older, research suggests it could affect far more than your happiness Jeanette Brown
Sep 14 Shown moving three-dimensional faces that differed only in the eyes, 48 five-year-olds judged the faces with white… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 14 Sent into the street with a fixed script and told to keep asking until five strangers agreed to fill in a… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 14 A meta-analysis restricted to randomized trials with active controls found meditation programs improved anxiety by an… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 14 A meta-analysis of 26 longitudinal studies found that people who stopped smoking scored lower on anxiety, depression… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 14 Across 11 Western countries, time-use diaries put the average mother's child care at a predicted 54 minutes a day in… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 14 Eighty-five preschoolers were handed the same toy with four hidden functions, and the ones whose adult said "I'm going… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 14 In recorded negotiations, silent pauses of at least three seconds went with more total value created for both sides… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 14 In one study, people's self-ratings of their emotional intelligence correlated with their actual test performance at… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 14 Undergraduate gym records across 442 days showed the probability of a visit rising 33.4% at the start of a new week and… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 13 In a nationally representative survey of 19,806 people in England, up to an hour a week in nature showed no significant… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 13 Thirty-seven students predicted when they would finish their theses and then finished, on average, twenty-two days… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 13 A review of the field found that the themes people use when they narrate their own lives predict wellbeing over and… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 13 The researchers who coined the term enclothed cognition in 2012 published a meta-analysis of 105 effects from 40… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 13 In a survey fielded this January, workers expected to retire at a median age of 65 while retirees reported actually… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 13 Researchers followed 469 older adults who were not lonely for twenty-eight years, and what predicted which of them… The Artful Age Editorial Team